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{
"time": "2015-12-09 15:15:00",
"attribution": {
"en": "Mr. Randall Garrison (Esquimalt\u2014Saanich\u2014Sooke, NDP)",
"fr": "M. Randall Garrison (Esquimalt\u2014Saanich\u2014Sooke, NPD)"
},
"content": {
"en": "<p class=\"procedural\" data-HoCid=\"4173999\"> moved for leave to introduce Bill <a data-HoCid=\"8060626\" href=\"/bills/42-1/C-204/\" title=\"An Act to amend the Canadian Human Rights Act and the Criminal Code (gender identity and gender expression)\">C-204, An Act to amend the Canadian Human Rights Act and the Criminal Code (gender identity and gender expression)</a>.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"4174000\" data-originallang=\"en\">Mr. Speaker, I rise today to introduce a bill that, in fact, was passed twice by the House of Commons: in the 40th Parliament and again in the 41st Parliament, each time only to be blocked by the unelected Senate.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"4174001\" data-originallang=\"en\">Before we can take up consideration of this bill again, more than five years will have passed since the House first voted to explicitly guarantee transgender and gender-variant Canadians the same rights and protections the rest of us already enjoy. Meanwhile, transgender people continue to suffer from high levels of discrimination and all too often, violence.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"4174002\" data-originallang=\"en\">I was pleased to hear that the new government was prepared to act quickly on this fundamental rights question. I look forward to working with the <a data-HoCid=\"214321\" href=\"/politicians/jody-wilson-raybould/\" title=\"Jody Wilson-Raybould\">Minister of Justice</a> and members from all parties to ensure that either the government's bill or my bill is adopted as soon as possible.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"4174003\" data-originallang=\"en\">Since I introduced Bill C-279 in 2011, seven provinces have added these same provisions to their human rights codes. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"4174004\" data-originallang=\"en\">Let us start down the road toward full equality for transgender Canadians by acting quickly to fill this significant gap in our human rights legislation.</p>\n<p class=\"procedural\" data-HoCid=\"10\"> (Motions deemed adopted, bill read the first time and printed) </p>",
"fr": "<p class=\"procedural\" data-HoCid=\"4173999\"> demande \u00e0 pr\u00e9senter le projet de loi <a data-HoCid=\"8060626\" href=\"/bills/42-1/C-204/\" title=\"An Act to amend the Canadian Human Rights Act and the Criminal Code (gender identity and gender expression)\">C-204, Loi modifiant la Loi canadienne sur les droits de la personne et le Code criminel (identit\u00e9 et expression de genre)</a>.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"4174000\" data-originallang=\"en\">\u2014 Monsieur le Pr\u00e9sident, je prends la parole pour pr\u00e9senter un projet de loi que la Chambre des communes a d\u00e9j\u00e0, en fait, adopt\u00e9 \u00e0 deux reprises: lors de la 40<sup>e</sup> l\u00e9gislature et, de nouveau, lors de la 41<sup>e</sup> l\u00e9gislature. Or, chaque fois, le S\u00e9nat non \u00e9lu l'a rejet\u00e9.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"4174001\" data-originallang=\"en\">Avant que nous puissions reprendre l'\u00e9tude de ce projet de loi, plus de cinq ans se seront pass\u00e9s depuis que la Chambre s'est prononc\u00e9e pour la premi\u00e8re fois en faveur d'un projet de loi visant explicitement \u00e0 garantir aux personnes transgenres et \u00e0 genre variable les m\u00eames droits dont jouissent d\u00e9j\u00e0 les autres Canadiens. Entretemps, les personnes transgenres continuent d'\u00eatre victimes d'une discrimination \u00e9hont\u00e9e et, bien trop souvent, de violence. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"4174002\" data-originallang=\"en\">Je me r\u00e9jouis que le nouveau gouvernement soit pr\u00eat \u00e0 agir rapidement dans ce dossier, qui touche aux droits fondamentaux. Je suis impatient de collaborer avec la <a data-HoCid=\"214321\" href=\"/politicians/jody-wilson-raybould/\" title=\"Jody Wilson-Raybould\">ministre de la Justice</a> et les d\u00e9put\u00e9s de tous les partis afin que le projet de loi du gouvernement ou le mien soit adopt\u00e9 le plus rapidement possible.</p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"4174003\" data-originallang=\"en\">Depuis que j'ai pr\u00e9sent\u00e9 le projet de C-279 en 2011, sept provinces ont ajout\u00e9 les m\u00eames dispositions l\u00e9gislatives \u00e0 leurs lois sur les droits de la personne. </p>\n<p data-HoCid=\"4174004\" data-originallang=\"en\">Commen\u00e7ons \u00e0 prendre les mesures qui s'imposent pour que les personnes transgenres puissent \u00eatre pleinement \u00e9gales par rapport aux autres Canadiens; comblons rapidement le foss\u00e9 qui existe dans nos lois sur les droits de la personne.</p>\n<p class=\"procedural\" data-HoCid=\"10\">(Les motions sont r\u00e9put\u00e9es adopt\u00e9es, le projet de loi est lu pour la premi\u00e8re fois et imprim\u00e9.)</p>"
},
"url": "/debates/2015/12/9/randall-garrison-1/",
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"h1": {
"en": "Routine Proceedings",
"fr": "Affaires Courantes"
},
"h2": {
"en": "Canadian Human Rights Act",
"fr": "La Loi canadienne sur les droits de la personne"
},
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}